Rockland, Duxbury stores robbed at gunpoint, 2 hours apart

Police say a man held up the Dunkin’ Donuts on Hingham Street at gunpoint Tuesday night. Just 2 hours later, a Duxbury convenience store was held, up possibly by the same suspect.

By Lane Lambert

The Patriot Ledger, Quincy, MA

By Lane Lambert

Posted Oct. 16, 2013 at 12:01 AM
Updated Oct 16, 2013 at 4:11 PM

By Lane Lambert

Posted Oct. 16, 2013 at 12:01 AM
Updated Oct 16, 2013 at 4:11 PM

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A Dunkin’ Donuts in Rockland has become the 22nd franchise in the chain to be robbed.

Police Sgt. Peter Chernicki said Wednesday morning that the store on Hingham Street was held up at gunpoint by a masked man at 7:40 p.m. Tuesday.

The holdup came less than 24 hours after two Dunkin’ Donuts in Bedford and Burlington were robbed. Police on the South Shore and elsewhere say the same suspect may be responsible for all the holdups.

Meanwhile, Duxbury police say the Rockland suspect may also the same man who held up a convenience store there at gunpoint two hours after the Rockland Dunkin' Donuts was robbed.

Chief Matthew Clancy said the Verc's Duxbury Gulf at Hall's Corner was robbed just after 9:30 p.m. Tuesday. In that robbery, too, a man wearing a hoodie sweatshirt, gloves and mask demanded money from a clerk at gunpoint, and then fled on foot.

In Tuesday night’s Rockland robbery, Chernicki said the suspect entered through a side door, pointed a black hand gun at a female clerk and asked for all the money. The clerk gave him all the cash from the registers, and the man fled through the same door.

The suspect was wearing a dark-colored hooded sweatshirt, dark pants, a mask and black gloves.

Anyone with information about the Rockland incident is urged to contact Rockland Detective James Casper at 781-871-3890. Duxbury police can be contacted at 781-934-5656.

The spree of Dunkin’ Donuts robberies began in March, including holdups in Canton, Norwood, Walpole, Westwood, Plainville, Norton, North Attleboro, Easton and several other towns.

The same Canton location was held up twice, on June 30 and July 24. Dunkin’ Donuts has offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest.